| 释义 |
ˈwater-fast, a. Sc.
= watertight.
1550Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894) I. 19 To keip the bwyth wattir fast with haile tymmyr, lofting, and flure. a1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlvi. 16 To pomp als oft as ȝe may haill, Ȝeill nevir hald hir watter-fast. 1574Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) 20 For helping to repair the said kirk and haldyng of it wattirfast. 1898E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow xviii. 254 The shieling's well biggit and as waterfast as a sowen-tub. |